Chapter, Paragraph
1 Fwd,2| of the Apostles.~ One of Rome's many innovations without
2 Fwd,2| at the Apostolic Council, Rome's argument of papal infallibility
3 Fwd,2| seminarian struggled with Rome's papal claims. When he
4 Fwd,2| the seminary's rector if Rome's claims were valid, the
5 Fwd,2| the fact that the crux of Rome's claim to be the true Church
6 Fwd,2| back two thousand years — Rome or Orthodoxy? The rector
7 Fwd,2| that when the positions of Rome and Orthodoxy are examined,
8 Fwd,2| Orthodoxy are examined, Rome's claim is altogether spurious
9 Fwd,3| the Apostles. (Contrary to Rome's teaching of papal supremacy,
10 Fwd,6| the early Church, think of Rome, the popes, the martyrs,
11 Fwd,6| spiritual genesis lies in Rome — i.e., Rome was the center
12 Fwd,6| genesis lies in Rome — i.e., Rome was the center of Western
13 1,1 | older than the Church of Rome, a Church which discussed
14 1,1 | to understand that it was Rome that broke away from the
15 1,1 | Christians on the part of Rome's pope, its bishops and
16 1,1 | addition, the bishop of Rome held a position as patriarch
17 1,1 | apart when the bishop of Rome, or pope, began to introduce
18 1,1 | designation reserved only for Rome's bishop, contrary to what
19 1,1 | supremacy of the bishop of Rome over the bishops of Jerusalem,
20 1,1 | with the might of ancient Rome, the Romans came to think
21 1,1 | came to think that mighty Rome should have the same significance
22 1,1 | popes, and in this striving, Rome entered the path of error.
23 1,1 | Apostle Peter played in Rome, Scripture is silent. However,
24 1,1 | the Apostle Peter] came to Rome and just what he did there
25 1,1 | brought Christianity to Rome, and therefore was not the
26 1,1 | founder of the Church of Rome in that sense. There is
27 1,1 | Church — a claim not made [by Rome] until the third century.
28 1,1 | spend any major time in Rome before 58 AD... and came
29 1,1 | about when Peter came to Rome, how long he stayed, or
30 1,1 | fact founded the Church of Rome, but because the Latin Church
31 1,1 | first taught Christianity in Rome. However, neither St. Paul,
32 1,1 | founder of the Church of Rome, nor St. Peter (perhaps
33 1,1 | co-founder of the Church of Rome, the authorities differ,
34 1,1 | been the first bishop of Rome, it is inconceivable that
35 1,1 | Church to the bishop of Rome. Such a title does not correspond
36 1,1 | the view of the bishop of Rome as the Head of the Church
37 1,1 | Churches, 1866].~ ~Knowing that Rome's novel teaching of a supreme
38 1,1 | Another innovation that Rome began to introduce was its
39 1,1 | very Creed itself. However, Rome insisted on its innovations,
40 1,1 | Christendom tried to call Rome back to the orthodox understanding
41 1,1 | corrupted, and for its part, Rome had already made its decision
42 1,1 | Churches — and only one — Rome, separated itself from the
43 1,1 | the Apostles. Concerning Rome's schism, the Roman Catholic
44 1,1 | went even further. Once Rome was willing to sacrifice
45 1,1 | grace of the Holy Spirit, Rome stopped looking to the Church
46 1,1 | order, the shock troops for Rome, promulgated the slogan
47 1,1 | principle meant that whenever Rome's bloodthirsty Uniate movement
48 1,1 | become Uniate Catholics under Rome through words, the Latin
49 1,1 | for “error has no rights,” Rome believes, and is therefore
50 1,1 | As a Greek monk notes, Rome conducted these genocides
51 1,1 | Constantinople, the Second Rome. With the fall of Constantinople,
52 1,1 | to Byzantium or Christian Rome, was the last Christian
53 1,1 | disappearance of Christian Rome, that which restrained world
54 1,6 | way to his martyrdom in Rome (he was fed to the lions),
55 1,8 | latter term originated when Rome was still fully united with
56 1,9 | severed in the West as of Rome's apostasy in 1054, it continued
57 1,11| Peter as the first bishop of Rome. Nonetheless, the Holy Church
58 1,11| the Church, even prior to Rome's departure from the Church
59 1,11| divine law. If the bishop of Rome was everywhere regarded
60 1,11| tradition (an understanding that Rome itself adhered to prior
61 1,11| ninth century), vis-à-vis Rome's divisive doctrine of papal
62 1,11| to advise the bishop of Rome, and that the bishop of
63 1,11| and that the bishop of Rome did not enjoy veto power.
64 1,11| find any recognition of Rome's claim to supreme universal
65 1,11| idea that the bishop of Rome was superior to a council
66 1,11| only because the bishop of Rome alone confirmed its decrees
67 1,11| patriarchs — [those of] Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria,
68 2,6 | this city Nea Romi (New Rome), although people referred
69 2,6 | was shifted from ancient Rome to Constantinople, the latter
70 2,6 | center of Christianity. Old Rome thus joined Constantinople,
71 2,6 | joined Constantinople, New Rome, the former city of Byzantium,
72 2,10| Constantine created New Rome, Constantinople, out of
73 2,10| were also religious: Old Rome was too deeply stained with
74 2,11| heathen associations of Old Rome. No pagan rites were ever
75 2,11| be performed in the New Rome.~ ~
76 3,5 | position did the pope of Rome formerly hold in the Church?~
77 3,5 | paragraph, to the patriarch of Rome — though not exclusively
78 3,5 | dead letter; so, indeed, is Rome's very claim to Apostolic
79 3,5 | holy and Apostolic see of Rome... [has]... the right (under
80 3,5 | Christianity, the bishop of Rome, or pope (meaning father),
81 3,5 | 325 accorded the bishop of Rome this distinction not because
82 3,5 | distinction not because Rome had been the seat of the
83 3,5 | gatherings, the bishop of Rome could, if he wished, preside
84 3,5 | Fathers that the bishop of Rome has ever been the prince
85 3,5 | councils. The bishop of Rome had no right to interfere
86 3,5 | made not to the bishop of Rome, but to an Ecumenical Council,
87 3,5 | certain ambitions bishops of Rome raised excessive claims
88 3,5 | In short, the bishop of Rome was never accorded any rights
89 3,5 | of Christianity was not Rome. In the earliest extant
90 3,5 | of all Churches.” As for Rome's argument that the Christian
91 3,5 | the Christian Church in Rome held an actual primacy in
92 3,5 | bishop of Jerusalem, but only Rome teaches that St. Peter presided
93 3,5 | more reasonable claim than Rome of being the see of Peter
94 3,5 | bishop before he ever went to Rome. Moreover, in addition to
95 3,5 | successors, the bishops of Rome, then Rome's primacy does
96 3,5 | the bishops of Rome, then Rome's primacy does not from
97 3,5 | Peter did not fall into Rome's deception, for the teaching
98 3,5 | assumed by the bishop of New Rome (Constantinople), wrote
99 3,5 | to him as bishop of New Rome. Pope Gregory clearly points
100 3,5 | represents a deviation on Rome's part from the correct
101 3,5 | an understanding that Rome itself had earlier adhered
102 3,5 | striking evidence that even in Rome, the right to claim a primacy
103 3,5 | understanding is from a bishop of Rome, no less, and one regarded
104 3,5 | undivided Christian Church until Rome began to assert it beginning
105 3,5 | he (and his superior in Rome, and all who remained in
106 3,5 | Commenting further on Rome's fall and its pope (whom
107 3,5 | Christ] with the man.~ ~As of Rome's infinitely tragic departure
108 3,5 | time, nor did Orthodoxy and Rome become separate branches
109 3,5 | ecclesiologies claimed that Rome's bishops somehow “kept
110 3,5 | be valid but irregular.~ Rome's newly invented false teaching
111 3,5 | off from the Holy Spirit, Rome was no longer in a position
112 3,5 | some Catholics that before Rome's definition of papal infallibility
113 3,5 | position which the bishop of Rome occupied in the Church on
114 3,5 | the Church on account of Rome, only accorded to him a
115 3,5 | the pope as the bishop of Rome inasmuch as Rome no longer
116 3,5 | bishop of Rome inasmuch as Rome no longer had true bishops
117 3,11| Church's history, the see of Rome, that once-great bastion
118 3,11| heresy, the Patriarchate of Rome usually stood as a bulwark
119 3,11| heresy. For this reason, Rome was an honored center of
120 3,17| known, the conflict between Rome and Constantinople over
121 3,18| Originally the pope of Rome was the first among equals
122 3,18| bishops of the Church. When Rome withdrew from the Church,
123 3,18| to occur for the pope of Rome to once again be the first
124 3,18| the first among equals?~ Rome would have to abandon all
125 3,18| the loss of the Church of Rome and so many of its faithful
126 3,18| Orthodoxy would always welcome Rome's return, such a return
127 3,18| a return is not likely. Rome has been estranged from
128 3,18| even begin to imagine that Rome will ever return. While
129 3,18| Orthodoxy and find a home in it, Rome shows an interest only in
130 3,18| antichrist, the pope of Rome.~ ~
131 4,12| been found in catacombs of Rome and Alexandria. Until the
132 4,12| in realistic painting.~ ~Rome has completely departed
133 5,4 | famous in Spain and Gaul, in Rome and Africa, were it not
134 6,2 | never forgot the ideals of Rome under Augustus and Trajan,
135 6,5 | language made unity between Rome and Constantinople more
136 6,6 | Russia became the Third Rome at the time Byzantium was
137 6,6 | to what happened between Rome and Constantinople, yet
138 6,6 | Russia did not commit Rome's mistake of holding itself
139 6,6 | Russia's being the Third Rome, the first Rome had fallen
140 6,6 | the Third Rome, the first Rome had fallen to the barbarians,
141 6,6 | Apostolic Church. The Second Rome (or New Rome, or Constantinople)
142 6,6 | The Second Rome (or New Rome, or Constantinople) had
143 6,6 | Moscow was indeed the Third Rome, the lawful successor of
144 6,6 | lawful successor of the New Rome, Constantinople. Moreover,
145 6,7 | developing disunity between Rome and the Church. What was
146 6,7 | Church. It saw the bishop of Rome as the first bishop, but
147 6,7 | dated back to the Apostles — Rome, which caused the West to
148 6,7 | which caused the West to see Rome as the Apostolic see. Also,
149 6,7 | Apostolic see. Also, while Rome adhered to the decisions
150 6,7 | and on earth.” Even so, Rome's shrill demand for submission
151 6,8 | continuation of ancient, pagan Rome, the spirit of which it
152 6,8 | only outwardly. In ancient Rome there were only two classes —
153 6,8 | over into Christianized Rome: the clergy became the patricians,
154 6,8 | patristic works. Moreover, Rome's change went against the
155 6,9 | focal points which separated Rome from this harmonious system?~ (
156 6,9 | over the Universal Church. Rome's spirit of lust for power
157 6,9 | be accorded to the see of Rome.” A similar document titled
158 6,9 | attempt to seduce people into Rome's web of deceit concerning
159 6,9 | Church.~ (2) The matter of Rome's addition of the word filioque
160 6,9 | before the separation of Rome from the Universal Church.
161 6,9 | from the Universal Church. Rome took it upon itself to change
162 6,10| Significantly, not only did Rome condemn the filioque phrase
163 6,10| more than one occasion, but Rome had even been its primary
164 6,10| not a part of the Mass in Rome). The pope balked at first,
165 6,10| throughout the West. Before long, Rome began to justify the alteration
166 6,13| judgment in such a way as Rome did. The Roman Church, in
167 6,13| moral fratricide — that is, Rome is guilty of a sin against
168 6,13| also proceeds from the Son. Rome's addition of a word is
169 6,15| great was the authority of Rome in these former provinces.~ ~
170 6,15| donation of the city of Rome by the Emperor Constantine
171 6,15| the mistaken notion that Rome's separation from the Church
172 6,15| of the Orthodox Church. Rome's schism is therefore nothing
173 6,15| into schism at that time. Rome adds that while Orthodoxy
174 6,15| not heretical. That is, Rome teaches that Eastern Orthodoxy
175 6,15| Church and becoming Orthodox, Rome claims that nothing essential
176 6,15| pope. Beyond this matter, Rome teaches, any doctrinal differences
177 6,15| formulations.~ In spite of Rome's claim that Orthodoxy went
178 6,15| clear in showing that once Rome no longer looked to Sacred
179 6,15| issues on its own. Thus Rome cut itself off from its
180 6,15| fell into heresy itself. Rome was no longer a part of
181 6,16| formula of a schism. Once Rome placed itself above the
182 6,16| itself — and so it did. When Rome turned its back on its former
183 6,16| century. In time (1870), Rome went on to invent the false
184 6,16| dogma that the bishop of Rome is infallible when speaking
185 6,16| that Peter spoke falsehood, Rome's argument of papal infallibility
186 6,16| the Church's treasury — so Rome teaches in complete contradiction
187 6,16| Eph 2:8-10).~ ~Regarding Rome's teaching on so-called
188 6,16| to the level of dogma as Rome did with this matter. This
189 6,16| developed in detail after Rome cut itself off from the
190 6,16| of the Apostle Peter in Rome and the upkeep of the papal
191 6,16| Metropolitan Hierotheos).~ Rome's medieval teaching on indulgences (
192 6,16| Christ's Church, and had Rome submitted these teachings
193 6,16| previously noted, however, as of Rome's severance from the Church
194 6,16| right-believing Orthodox Christians, Rome was severed from it as of
195 6,18| of this theory shows that Rome's claim is altogether spurious
196 6,18| correctly concluded that Rome would forever be forced
197 6,18| left so complete a witness, Rome is shorn of all defense
198 6,18| added temporal dominion over Rome, over Italy, and over the
199 6,18| spite of that admission, Rome continued deceiving the
200 6,18| were absolute evidence of Rome's supreme universal jurisdiction,
201 6,18| jurisdiction, then why did Rome resort to counterfeit documents?
202 6,18| most importantly — that Rome's papal claims, like all
203 7,11| of papal infallibility. Rome's scholastic theology teaches
204 7,14| proved effective in helping Rome achieve its worldly aims.
205 7,14| did not fall in line with Rome's schism in 1054, the pope
206 7,14| Protestantism is the daughter of Rome; it was delivered out of
207 7,14| and were well aware that Rome was only a forgery of the
208 7,14| When they withdrew from Rome, however, they did not seek
209 8,7 | Creed. The significance of Rome's unlawful alteration and
210 8,7 | tamper with the Creed such as Rome did, for the Creed is the
211 8,7 | of the filioque clause, Rome committed moral fratricide
212 8,7 | Spirit. While Orthodoxy and Rome both agree that the Holy
213 8,7 | proceeds from the Father, Rome goes on to proclaim that
214 8,7 | unique source of the Godhead. Rome sees the principle of unity
215 8,10| concerned, both Orthodoxy and Rome agree that He is sent by
216 8,10| Son. Where Orthodoxy and Rome disagree is in the matter
217 8,10| the Father alone, and when Rome says the Spirit proceeds
218 8,11| teaching was adhered to by Rome itself until its illicit
219 8,12| of understanding between Rome and the Holy Church. Can
220 8,14| prohibited any changes in it. Rome was party to all of this.
221 8,14| to all of this. Thus, if Rome wishes to make a change
222 9,15| Up to a point, Orthodoxy, Rome and classical Protestantism
223 10,6 | which the Patriarchate of Rome was fully united when this
224 10,10| of one side of its mouth, Rome states that it is the one
225 10,10| heretics, and culminating with Rome in 1054, left the actual,
226 10,10| he (and his superior in Rome, and all who remained in
227 10,10| given the situation in Rome a few years earlier, when
228 10,11| has been monarchical (as Rome maintains); it is rather
229 10,16| severed in the West as of Rome's departure from the Apostolic
230 10,17| around any single bishop, as Rome later came to maintain.
231 10,17| the Great Schism of 1054, Rome's bishop had no more authority
232 10,25| Mary that developed after Rome left the Apostolic Church
233 10,25| is equal to God. All of Rome's teachings in this regard
234 10,25| time of the Apostles. In Rome's false teachings about
235 10,25| Antidikomarionites].~ Orthodoxy and Rome part company again over
236 10,25| Orthodoxy likewise rejects Rome's dogma of the Assumption
237 10,26| ancestral sin, and it was Rome's attempt to cover up Augustine'
238 10,26| eradicating the first falsehood, Rome chose instead to cover it
239 10,26| Church.~ In that action, Rome added still another deviation
240 10,26| to annihilate sin.~ (4) Rome's teaching that the Virgin
241 10,26| sin? It would follow from Rome's teaching that God saves
242 10,26| conception to salvation.~ (5) Rome's teaching, while seeming
243 10,26| Christian. Moreover, even after Rome severed itself from the
244 10,26| novelty and absurdity of Rome's false teaching. (Because
245 10,27| Assumption of the Virgin, which Rome proclaimed to be a dogma
246 10,27| stain of original sin,” as Rome's pronouncement read, she
247 10,27| Conception, is a product of Rome's incorrect understanding
248 10,27| disseminated, along with Rome's cult of the Sacred Heart
249 11,1 | Balkans), then to Germany and Rome to view Roman Christianity,
250 11,1 | convenience to mark the time when Rome's severance from Orthodoxy
251 11,4 | innovative changes introduced by Rome since the Great Schism,
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